Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
DOROTHY PARKERGenius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Now, look, baby, ‘Union’ is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.
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Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.
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All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Maybe it is only I, but conditions are such these days, that if you use studiously correct grammar, people suspect you of homosexual tendencies.
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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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There’s life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
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Of Orson Welles: It’s like meeting God without dying.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
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